NASA Crew-12's SpaceX Falcon 9 & Dragon Spacecraft | International Space Station

NASA Crew-12's SpaceX Falcon 9 & Dragon Spacecraft  | International Space Station

NASA Crew-12 portrait

The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose together for an official crew portrait. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, Commander and Pilot respectively, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Mission Specialist Sophie Adenot.

NASA Crew-12 emblem

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are vertical at pad 40 in Florida for NASA’s Crew-12 Mission. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 6:01 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The targeted docking time is approximately 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 12.

Watch the launch here: http://spacex.com/launches/crew12

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Mission will see four people embark on a long-duration science expedition to the International Space Station. Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway are the NASA astronauts supporting the mission. Meir will serve as commander and Hathaway will serve as the Crew-12 pilot. The crew also has two mission specialists, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot of France and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia. 

The four crew will perform a full rehearsal of launch day activities on the morning of Monday, Feb. 9, including putting on their spacesuits, going to their launch pad, and strapping into the Dragon spacecraft.

Mission managers from NASA and SpaceX also will discuss the preparations and launch status at 11 a.m. on Feb. 9 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.Spacecraft models

Crew-12 is the 12th crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system and its 13th flight with astronauts for NASA, including the Demo-2 test flight, to the space station through the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

They have trained for their mission across the world, including NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, SpaceX facilities in Hawthorne, California, and international training locations. Once their Dragon spacecraft arrives at the space station, they will spend their eight month long duration mission conducting scientific experiments and maintaining the orbiting lab.

Learn more about the mission:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Follow Expedition 74:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 74 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineer: Sergei Mikaev
NASA Flight Engineer: Chris Williams

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.Kennedy Space Center

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Release Date: Feb. 7, 2026

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